A George II Period Carved & Gilded Wood & Gesso Fragment c.1730 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles the plaster figures showing the

the plaster figures showing the Madonna and Child in standing position survives from a pre-Victorian period ecclesiastical setting

This company started trading in 1919 and in the 1960s were fitting out large country houses with fine antique furniture

The late Victorian period sculpture or jardiniere stand fluted column with gilt-metal adornments in the form of floral swags to the top and architectural batons to each flute the whole having a square platform top on a raised square plinth

but somehow wholly appropriate gilt frame

the hands seem to move with no apparent mechanism to drive them

A George II Period Carved & Gilded Wood & Gesso Fragment c.1730 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles the plaster figures showing theOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1730Width: 45. 5Depth: 6Height: 12 (all at extremities & with backing board)The giltwood and gesso hand carved fragment, still of good imposing size, having been part of a larger composition, showing a heraldic eagle amongst foliage and a large flower head to a scaled sea serpent all above a helix twist frieze, having remnants of a pully or wench system to the reverse, possibly surviving from